{"id":648493,"date":"2013-03-22T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=392709"},"modified":"2013-03-22T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T03:05:21","slug":"americas-top-copyright-cop-wants-to-make-it-a-felony-to-stream-songs-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648493","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s top copyright cop wants to make it a felony to stream songs without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/music-streaming-felony-proposal-392709\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/downloading-communism1.gif?w=353&amp;h=333&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Music Streaming Felony\" title=\"Music Piracy\" \/><\/a><\/center>Owners of websites that stream music and videos without the permission of copyright holders <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2008\/06\/30\/first-conviction-handed-down-in-elitetorrents-case\/\">could soon be prosecuted as felons<\/a> if Congress passes a new proposal from\u00a0United States Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/289437-copyright-chief-calls-for-crackdown-on-illegal-streaming\"><em>The Hill<\/em> reports<\/a> that\u00a0Pallante is urging Congress to make illegal content streaming a felony that&#8217;s on par with illegally making copyrighted content available for download. Pallante said that &#8220;there is a gap in the law&#8221; between content streaming and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/03\/9-year-old-girl-piracy-case-father\/\">more traditional content piracy<\/a> while contending that going after content streamers for misdemeanors wasn&#8217;t enough to dissuade them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/music-streaming-felony-proposal-392709\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ksNOLGigYXc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of websites that stream music and videos without the permission of copyright holders could soon be prosecuted as felons if Congress passes a new proposal from\u00a0United States Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante. The Hill reports that\u00a0Pallante is urging Congress to make illegal content streaming a felony that&#8217;s on par with illegally making copyrighted content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}